Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is not likely to mollify the public, which craves absolute safety, not just in medicine but in all facets of life. "People have to think of the alternatives," says Dr. David Sutherland, a transplant surgeon at the University of Minnesota. "If your heart is failing and you're given one month to live without a heart transplant, are you going to say, 'I'm not going to have it because there's a 1-in-10,000 chance I'll get AIDS'? I doubt it." One positive side effect of AIDS is that it has forced major improvements...
...pharmacy, all in one convenient location. We have fresh coffee and croissants in the waiting room, as well as a fax machine, current issues of all the magazines and a concierge. And we promise you'll never have to wait more than 15 minutes, or the next organ transplant...
Last fall, she moved to England in hopes of obtaining a heart-lung transplant at one of the world's best clinics. She spent the year searching for a job in journalism and hoping to be placed on the exclusive list of those eligible to receive the vital and dangerous operation...
...Crimson in 1989, had been receiving treatment at the Royal Brompton hospital in London, England for three-and-a-half weeks. She had been in England for several months, attempting to attain citizenship so that she could be placed on a waiting list for a heart-lung transplant...
...what of Abedi, the genius behind it all? His heart attack and a later heart transplant stopped his direct control of B.C.C.I. in 1988, which proved disastrous for the bank. Already in trouble from too rapid expansion, and dependent on constantly increasing deposits to keep the cooked books from revealing the growing problems, B.C.C.I. could not hold together without Abedi -- as the audit released last year revealed. He resigned officially from the bank last year, and is living in semiretirement in Karachi. Authorities in several countries would surely like to get their hands on him. His connections with Pakistan...